Audit Bureau Proposes Changes
To Newspaper-Circulation Rules

The official number-crunching body for the newspaper industry has made preliminary suggestions to overhaul its controversial rules under which publishers count circulation.

During a series of meetings over the weekend, officials of the Audit Bureau of Circulations proposed changes that included creating new categories for what counts as paid circulation. The moves, if approved, would make it easier to determine how much of a newspaper's circulation was sold to individuals, compared with sales through third parties such as hotels...